Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-03-24
A Lesson With a Moral.
When Will Our Eyes be Opened to
this Great National Calamity 2

The year 1885 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full
flush of life.
Others were sick but comparatively
short time. We turn to our lilies and
are astonished to find that most of them
died OF apoplexy, of paralysis, of nerv-
Gus prostration, of malignant blood hu-
NOR, of Bright's disease. of. heart dis
ease, of kidney disease, of rheumatism
or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most Of our prom
inent men die of these disorders. Any
journalist who watches the telegraph
reports will be astonished at the num-
ber of prominent victims OF these dis
orders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the diseases which carried off so many
prominent men in 1886 are really one
disease. taking different names accord
ing to the location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it
becomes the nine days. talk of the
sporting world, and yet thousands of
ordinary horses are dying every day,
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The cause
of death of prominent men.creates CON-
ment, especially when it can be shown
that one unsuspected disease carries off
most OF them, and yet "vast numbers
of ordinary men and women die before
their time every year from the same
cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid, that heart disease, par
alysis, nervous prostratlon, pneumonia,
rheumatism, and many cases OF con-
sumption, would never be known. This
uric acid, we are told, is the waste of
the system, and it is the duty Of the
kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood,
ana these sudden and universal dlseas-
es caused by uric acid will, in large
measure, disappear.
But how shall this be done It is
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause, that
way should be known to the public.
We believe that Warmers safe cure of
which so much has been written, and
SO much talked of by the public gener-
ally ,and which can be obtained of deal
ers everywhere, is now recognized by
impartial physicians and the public as
the one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has been di-
rected to this great remedy by means of
advertising, some persons have not be-
lieved in the remedy. We cannot see
how Mr.. Warner could Immediately
benefit the public in any other way and
his valuable specific should not be con-
UCCduSC OOiuC nOcGL AoNC
come before the public in the same way,
and more than that all doctors should
be condemned because so.many of them
are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side of that great
remedy, and public opinion thus based
upon'an actual experience, has all the
weight and imp ortance of absolute
truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid
in the blood Invites pneumonia and
rheumatism, and there is not man
who does not dread these monsters of
disease but he need have no fear of
them, we are told, if he rid the blood of
the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may
sound likecan advertisement, and be re-
jected as such by. unthinking people,
but we believe they are the truth, and
as such should be spoken by. every
truth-loving newspaper.